We began our day with integration, sensory diets, play, and visual storytelling. Play is great for creativity, language arts and complex communication skills, abstract thinking, problem solving skills, inquiry and mathematics skills, role-play and drama, fine motor skills, teamwork, and social skills.
Sensory diets are so important for regulation, auditory processing skills, teamwork, social skills, sportsmanship, motor planning, body mapping, sequencing, gross motor skills, proprioception skills, vestibular and bilateral movements, and balance and coordination.
Some of our friends also participated in TGTS "Mimic a Design" where they had to use their mathematical skills, visual spatial skills, fine motor skills, abstract thinking skills, problem solving skills, and turn taking. Moreover, we also engaged in an object memory game that enhances cognitive skills, visual spatial skills, visual memory, attention and focus.
Mr. Sander was our teacher today and went over months, weeks, dates, days, year, weather, time, and feelings.
Here is Mr. Zachary with Ms. B during his 1:1 session.
Before recess we engaged in visual storytelling. Students had to look at a picture and use descriptive, positional, mathematical, and scientific language to verbally describe the picture. They also used who, what, where, when, why, and how questions to help Mr. Jacob visualize the action photo, and provide Ms. B with an image for her to draw. Afterwards we compared and contrasted both pictures and looked at what we may have missed and what we got correct.
In gym today, the students played many games. This ranged from Fishy Fishy, Party Poopers, and Jail Break. All activities challenged the students auditory processing skills, hand-eye coordination, teamwork, sportsmanship, motor planning, fine and gross motor skills, proprioception skills, vestibular and bilateral movements, and balance and coordination.
Today was our very first gymnastics session. The boys demonstrated excellent patience, listening skills, and movements in gymnastics today. We worked on our balance and coordination, proprioceptive, vestibular, and bilateral movements, sportsmanship, gross motor skills, and motor planning.
Lastly, we went over our Zones of Regulation and used different coloured blocks to symbolize how our day was, and how different times of the day went. We also got to share our own ideas and thoughts on how our day went, and took turns saying one nice thing about our friends from today's work.
Have a great evening!
HOMEWORK:
To brainstorm ideas about different countries, print out facts (e.g. food, dress, music, landscape, animals, etc.) and be ready to discuss our cultural market theme.
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